Some designs make life easier. Others make you question reality. This collection is dedicated to the second kind—the ones so bafflingly bad that they defy logic, common sense, and basic human decency.

Some designs make you stop and appreciate the genius behind them. These are not those designs. These are the ones that make you pause, blink a few times, and wonder if the person in charge just ...

Some days, Mike Best feels like a spy. “You have to figure out who the bad guy is,” he says. “But the whole time, the bad guy is feeding you misinformation.” Like Bond in the last 50 years, or MI6 in ...